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Diversity and Inclusion

The School of Law holds a Bronze Athena SWAN award (2018) recognising its work in identifying and addressing gender equality challenge developing an inclusive culture that values all staff.

The School SWAN Committee supports a number of activities within the School which are part of the School’s Action Plan on Gender Equality. These include an annual Career Development Workshop, mentoring for post-probation staff and postdoctoral researchers, scheduled lunch and coffee meet ups to provide informal support and networking for female staff, an annual ‘Women in Law and Leadership’ seminar series for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and advancement of female role models within the School for all staff and students in public lectures, visiting scholarships and wider events.

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SWAN Career Development Workshop

Each year the School hosts a SWAN Career Development Workshop. The purpose of this event is to provide support for colleagues in their career development across a number of levels including career planning, publication, promotion and profile building. Past speakers at the workshop include Professor Aoife O'Donoghue (Durham Law School), Professor Fiona de Londras (University of Birmingham), Professor Debbie Lisle (QUB School of HAPP), Dr Heather Johnson (QUB School of HAPP), Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh (QUB School of HAPP), Professor Anne-Marie McAlinden (QUB School of Law) and Professor John Morison (QUB School of Law). 

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Women in Law: It’s Hard to Be What You Can’t See

In 2018 the School of Law commissioned a new artwork exhibition for the School as part of its ongoing commitment to the Athena SWAN Charter and its recognition of the importance of celebrating the successes of women. This project, titled ‘Women in Law: It’s Hard to Be What You Can’t See’ was created by local artist Susie Rea and coincided the centenary of women’s suffrage and of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919, which sought to ensure against the disqualification of women.

The brief was to create original artwork to visualise and celebrate women working in all aspects of the law in Northern Ireland, including future generations. The inspiration behind the title of the project – It’s hard to be what you can’t see – was coined by female lawyer and civil rights activist, Marian Wright Edelman, the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi bar.

Working with SWAN Champion, Dr Kathryn McNeilly, Susie Rea asked a number of senior women lawyers, judges, policy makers and academics to write letters to their younger selves, to give advice and encouragement based on their career experiences over the years.  Among those included in the installation – and featured in the accompanying publication – are letters from the Hon. Mrs Justice Keegan, one of the first women appointed to the High Court in Northern Ireland; The Hon. Ms Justice Doherty, CBE, former Judge of the High Court and Court of Appeal of Sierra Leone and Professor Monica McWilliams, former Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.

The exhibition also features current undergraduate and postgraduate law students who penned letters to their future selves and are photographed in the exhibition as part of the ‘Women in Law’ student group.

You can visit the art exhibition on Level 2 of the School of Law, outside the Moot Court.

Queen’s Equality Policies

https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/HumanResources/diversity-and-inclusion

Queen’s Gender Initiative

https://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/QueensGenderInitiative/

 

Swan Application and Action Plan

School of Law Bronze Application with Updated Action Plan 22 July 2021 (Redacted)

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